Posted on 10/12/2001 4:24:40 PM PDT by laureldrive
from my latest email newsletter received October 12 from Pacific Legal Foundation (www.pacificlegal.org)
PLF WARNS COMMUNITY COLLEGES: STOP THE LAW-BREAKING - OR ELSE
"[P]lease await further advice from this office before considering any changes to your affirmative action policies and programs."
This order recently went out to California’s Community Colleges from the system's Chancellor, Tom Nussbaum, after a state appeals court struck down race and sex preferences in college hiring. Nussbaum in essence was telling college officials to ignore the appellate court and keep discriminating, because top brass might appeal the anti-discrimination ruling to the state supreme court.
Immediately upon learning of this directive to flout the law, Pacific Legal Foundation -- which brought the lawsuit at issue -- informed college officials that they're asking for trouble, including personal financial liability, if they obey Mr. Nussbaum.
Under Proposition 209, the anti-discrimination amendment to the state constitution, college employees "involved in [a race-preference] hiring process" are "subject to personal liability for compensatory and punitive damages," PLF Senior Vice President Anthony T. Caso informed the college presidents in a letter this week. "The immunity from punitive damages provided to public agencies does not extend to public employees," Caso warned. Because the individual colleges themselves weren't parties to PLF's lawsuit, "an appeal [to the state Supreme Court] by any of the parties will have no effect on your potential liability," Caso continued.
Moreover, college presidents and managers who sponsor discriminatory hiring could also be sued for creating a "hostile work environment," Caso noted. "Such claims may arise where employees are forced to choose members of the interview panel on the basis of race or sex, or to choose final candidates on the basis of race or sex. Employees subjected to a racially or sexually hostile work environment would be able to bring a claim for damages and attorneys fees."
Halting discrimination isn't just the right thing to do, it can also spare college officials a big hit to their personal bank accounts. PLF was happy to let them in on this fact, and stands ready to administer remedial education - in court - if needed.
But hey....thats just me!
The arrogance of these rats!!!
I don't get it. The government, especially the legislators are supposedly the paragons of intellect and virtue, yet they are not to be trusted; reason for the Forth Amendment. The "little people" are not as intelligent or trustworthy and they are able to waltz right into any private business and private school. Can you say "huge disconnect!"
"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? The organizers maintain that society, when left undirected, rushes headlong to its inevitable destruction because the instincts of the people are so perverse. The legislators claim to stop this suicidal course and to give it a saner direction. Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place them beyond and above mankind.
"They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority." -- Frederick Bastiat, The Law (1850)
How does society benefit by seventy-eight innocents massacred at Waco? How does government-forced bankruptcy of 1,500 Klamath Falls farmers benefit society? The supposed paragons of intellect and virtue in the Senate violated their oath of office when they didn't remove Clinton from office. ...Because it depends on what the meaning of "is", is. Because everyone lies about sex before a judge and court of law. That's who the parasites claiming to be so intelligent and virtuous are.
That's not a stretch. It is fact. It's not even a stretch to the founding fathers. To them it would be unfathomable/unimaginable. Yet today the sheeple cry for the parasites to protect them from themselves. Of course, the sheeple will never admit that. They claim they are able to stand on their own two feet and that it's other people that can't -- just like the legislators proclaim their superiority.
We hear the rhetoric cry of nights for Blacks, Hispanics, lesbians, gays, non-smokers, humans, plants and animals, employees, patients, the criminal's rights (but seldom the victim,) the elderly ...but for all that a person will hear only one out of a thousand times the mention of individual-rights/property-rights. One mention of individual rights for a thousand mentions of a dozen other rights -- illusionary rights.
That is a Grand-Canyon size disconnect/void because, when the smallest minority, the lone individual's rights are protected, all other larger-than-one minorities are protected. Individual/property rights is the solid foundation Americans seek. They will find it. And then implement a system of government that abides it.
Neo-Tech Constitution
Article 1
No person, group of persons, or government may initiate force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual.
Article 2
Force may be morally and legally used only in self-defense against those who violate Article 1.
Article 3
No exceptions shall exist for Articles 1 and 2.
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